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Summary: Quick witted, quick read
Review: Roald Dahl is one of the most compelling yet unpretentious writers I have ever read. He is infinitely clever and can master children's books, short stories and erotic novellas. This book is a great example of how crafty he can be with adult subject matter. This is not a book for children, as it deals with sexual matters throughout. "My Uncle Oswald" is a rollicking story of how a shrewd businessman made his fortune off of powerful men and their enflamed sexual desires. The female character of the beautiful Yasmin Howcomely is a great example of an intelligent and self-aware lady who uses her brains and looks to get somewhere. The book is pure comedy from beginning to end and highlights how Dahl can make any subject funny. If you have enjoyed his short stories, you'll enjoy this short book. If you aren't prudish, love witty yet accessible writing and have a few spare hours on your hands, you'll love this book. It is short enough for a cross-country flight or a few nights pre-bedtime reading.
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Summary: hilarious!!!
Review: Roald Dahl is truly a genius! When I bought the book and started reading it I couldn't put it down and finished it at one go. I don't remember having read a funnier, a more brilliantly written book!!!! The guy is a wizard!!!!!
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Summary: Genius!
Review: Roald Dahl proves yet again why he is such a great writer. My Uncle Oswald is one of the best books I've ever read. Hysterical from beginning to end. There are no "deep" moments or insights into human nature here. Just an outstanding book about Roald's "Uncle"
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Summary: Very funny (and wicked)!
Review: The story is the memoirs of 'Uncle Oswald', who leads a life so hysterical and wicked it will leave the reader wishing he had endeavoured to achieve the goals of young Oswald. Aching sides are a regular symptom, however, for the rolls of laughter which follow the reading of this book are indeed powerful.
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Summary: don't listen to those people!
Review: they just aren't explaining the brilliance and wit and fun and wonderfulness embodied by this book! i can't blame them, though...i don't think it would be easy to do. dahl's style is amazing. what a way with words. and then the ideas that he comes up. unbelievable. the plot on this one is both ribald and hilarious. you'll find yourself thinking a hundred different things while you are reading this book and then getting annoyed with yourself because it's distracting you from the book! after this, try his "tales of the unexpected."
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Summary: Everything we would come to expect from Dahl
Review: This is a typical Roald Dahl book, which shows the authors fantasy and imagination at work. I read somewhere that Dahl was embarassed about this book being published but it is an entertaining read. The book is quite short, and is a continuation of one of his short stories. Dahl always gets to the point in his writing, as he does so here with a kind of soft core porno novel. Naturally there is a liberal dosage of black humour from Dahl also. I would recommend this book, as Dahl is in my opinion a hugely original and exceptional author, the likes of which we will not see again for 100 years.
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Summary: The Funniest thing Ever
Review: This is the best novel I have ever read. I can't begin to express the genius of this book. Although it seems to be only a simple tale of fornication and insane money making schemes, it is definitely far more than that. This book touched me on a deeper level than anyone could imagine it would. Oswald's conversations with his father made me understand a great amount of the world. One theme brought back time and again by Oswald is the idea that most people take themselves, and the world, too seriously. This is one of the basic beliefs that I have held for many years. Oswald goes about his life with a vitality I could never have imagined. Even when he loses all his money, it only takes him a short time before he is in as high spirits as before. This book will make anyone laugh, a few times I could not stop laughing for half an hour about one part. The only possible fault in the book is it's length, but the greatness of what he did write makes up for that a hundred-fold.
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Summary: A delighting, funny, totally weird story
Review: Those who only knew Dahl as a writer of funny short stories and haunting children's books, should look here. This is one of his more lengthy stories, although it doesn't have much more than 200 pages. His witty and capricious style hasn't changed either: this is a book as funny as you'll seldom read them. It's not for the youngest kids though, mainly because of its main subject. For there is just one thing this whole book depends on: sex. Not the kind of it you meet in most books, though: the story is rather a caricature of all sexual values that have ever existed. The story's main person, Oswald Cornelius (who is called 'uncle' because the whole story is quoted from his 'diaries' by a nephew), is, according to Dahl, "the greatest rogue, bounder, connoisseur, bon vivant and fornicator of all time". He seems to get every lady, not regarding age or whatever else, into bed with utmost ease. This gentleman comes across a lot of absolutely ridiculous adventures that are all described in this wicked book. This story takes place around 1912, when Oswald is barely seventeen. In spite of his young age, he is already a great diplomat and communicator. When he hears about a mysterious African beetle that, when stamped to powder, increases a man's potency highly, he's the first to go on expedition to Africa and get hold of some of these beetles. He accomplishes his mission and gets back to Europe where he sells his 'high-potency pills' at exorbitant prices to noble people from all over the world. But then he realizes there's much more (money) to get. Oswald then develops an ultimately ridiculous plan. Take a look at the cover if you're curious about it, I'd say. Anyway, to execute this plan he needs help. He picks out two people as his sidekicks: a chemist called A.R. Woresley and his schoolmate Yasmin Howcomely, "a girl absolutely soaked in sex" as Dahl describes it. And off they go for their mission... While Oswald is presented as a great bon vivant in the beginning, I need to say that his person changes during the story. At the start he's an audacious boy who fears nobody and even dares to challenge older ladies, but during the second part of the story Oswald is mainly a witness of Yasmin's actions. He has become a businessman who lets others do the work for him. And as with real businessmen, not everything goes as they had planned it... But in the end any kind of character development doesn't matter all that much, for this novel is just a very humorous story that made me laugh as I'd seldom did before with any book. The undertaken actions, and especially the way Dahl describes these, are incredibly funny. You're really in for a (hopefully positive) shock if you haven't read anything like this before. I can absolutely recommend this book for anyone who likes a very lucid and deliciously weird read.
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Summary: An absolute hoot
Review: What can I say? I've read this book three times, and each time I laugh so hard that my socks fall off. Given the success of this novel, the only question is why Dahl chose to limit himself, in terms of his writings for adults, to the short-story genre (of which he was unquestionably a master).
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Summary: shine on you crazy dahl diamond
Review: When encountering dahl's metaphysical view of man and nature it's best to approach his works from a geo-sensitive literary mindset. This I say, of course, with all neo-pretentions aside. His characters have an opaque luster and that sheen only grows as the character reveals himself through dahl's social-societal inclinations to reveal that which has thus far remained cloaked. And the book is cloaked, in a sense. Cloaked with an aged, starched blanket enriching words and breathing life into paradigms once left unexplored save for the recesses of a sharp yet dusty mind. But this you see, of course, and don't you? Perhaps the most fitting conclusion is one with a circular return, as if a thought is spawning, yearning and yawning.
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